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Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
Special Broadcasting Service logo, as of 2008
TypeBroadcast radio and
television
CountryFlag of Australia Australia
AvailabilityNational
SloganSix Billion Stories and counting. Terrestrial television is a term which refers to modes of television broadcasting which do not involve satellite transmission Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Advertising Slogans are short often memorable phrases used in advertising campaigns . .
OwnerGovernment of Australia
Key peopleCarla Zampatti, Chairman; Gerald Stone, Deputy Chairman
Launch date1975 (Radio)
1980 (Television)
2001 (Digital TV)
Website
www.sbs.com.au

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is one of two government funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television networks, the other being the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). This article describes the federal government of Australia See Australian governments for other jurisdictions For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Public broadcasting refers to radio television and other electronic media outlets that receive some or all of their funding from the public Television broadcasting in Australia began on the 16 September 1956 in black and white at TCN-9 in Sydney, and has since expanded to include a broad range The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly abbreviated to the 'ABC' is Australia's national public broadcaster. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect Australia's multicultural society"[1]. The term multiculturalism generally refers to a state of racial, cultural and ethnic diversity within the Demographics of a specified

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History

In 1975, the Australian Government introduced the Medibank health insurance scheme. Medibank was the name given to Australia 's system of universal health insurance when it was first created by Gough Whitlam 's Australian Labor Party government Concerns that minority communities might require details in their own languages led to the establishment of two ethnic radio stations, 2EA in Sydney and 3EA in Melbourne. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 These started broadcasting in June 1975, seven and eight foreign languages, respectively.

The following year, the Government created the Consultative Committee on Ethnic Broadcasting. Following the recommendation of this and subsequent committees, the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942 was amended to found the Special Broadcasting Service. This legislation came into force on January 1, 1978, with the new broadcaster taking responsibility for 2EA and 3EA[2].

SBS TV began test transmissions in April 1979 when it showed various foreign language programs on ABV-2 Melbourne and ABN-2 Sydney on Sunday mornings. SBS TV, sometimes SBS, is a national public television channel in Australia. ABV is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 's television station in Melbourne, Victoria. ABN is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 's television station in Sydney, New South Wales. Full-time transmission began at 6. 30pm on 24 October 1980 (United Nations Day) as Channel 0/28. Events 69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus the commander of the Danube armies loyal to Vespasian, defeat Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) United Nations Day, proclaimed in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly, is held annually on 24 October, the anniversary of the coming into force At the time SBS was broadcasting on UHF Channel 28 and VHF Channel 0, with a planned discontinuation of the latter at some time in the future. Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Bruce Gyngell, who introduced television to Australia back in 1956, was given the task of introducing the first batch of programs on the new station. Bruce Gyngell ( 8 July 1929 &ndash 7 September 2000) born in Melbourne, Victoria was a leading Australian

On 16 October 1983 the service expanded into Canberra, Cooma, and Goulburn and at the same time changed its name to Network 0-28. Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Canberra ( is the capital city of Australia With a population of over 340000 it is Australia's largest inland City. Cooma is Goulburn is a provincial City in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. Its new slogan was the long-running "Bringing the World Back Home". The network changed its named to SBS on the 18th February, 1985, and began daytime transmissions. Events 3102 BC - Epoch (origin of the Kali Yuga. 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II Holy Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) SBS expanded to Brisbane, Adelaide, Newcastle, Wollongong and the Gold Coast in the June of that year.

On 5 January 1986 SBS ceased broadcasting on the VHF0 frequency. Events 1477 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France. Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Although many Australians at the time did not have UHF antennas, SBS's VHF license had already been extended by a year at this stage and not all antennas had worked well with the low-frequency Channel 0 either[3].

In August 1986, the Government proposed legislation that would merge SBS into the ABC. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly abbreviated to the 'ABC' is Australia's national public broadcaster. This was highly unpopular with ethnic communities, leading Prime Minister Bob Hawke to announce in 1987 that the proposed amalgamation would not proceed. Robert James Lee (Bob Hawke, AC (born 9 December 1929 was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister The SBS Youth Orchestra is launched in August, 1987 with founding conductor Matthew Krel.

Plans to introduce limited commercial program sponsorship, and the establishment of SBS as an independent corporation with its own Charter were put into place in July, 1989. The proclamation of the Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991 officially made SBS a corporation in 1991. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Throughout the early 1990s, SBS TV coverage is expanded further to include new areas such as the Latrobe Valley, Spencer Gulf, Darwin, northeast Tasmania, Cairns and Townsville. SBS TV, sometimes SBS, is a national public television channel in Australia. The Latrobe Valley is nestled between the Strzelecki Ranges and the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, Australia. The Spencer Gulf is the westernmost of two large inlets on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, facing the Great Australian Bight Tasmania is an Australian island and state of the same name It is located south of the eastern side of the Continent, being separated from it by Bass Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Australia, in the state of Queensland.

In 1992, the SBS' radio and television facilities were gradually moved to new headquarters in Artarmon, New South Wales from its original studios at Milson's Point. Artarmon is a Suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Milsons Point is a Suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The new building was officially opened in November, 1993 by Prime Minister Paul Keating. This article is about the government position For other uses see Prime Minister (disambiguation. Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944 was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, from 1991 to 1996 A national radio network was launched in January, 1994. The new service initially covered Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin, while original stations 2EA and 3EA were renamed Radio Sydney and Radio Melbourne, respectively. Brisbane ( is the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. The new national service was launched on a separate frequency in Sydney and Melbourne in July, of that year. Throughout 1996 radio services were expanded to cover Hobart and Canberra, while SBS TV's coverage was further expanded to include the New South Wales north coast and Albury. Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Canberra ( is the capital city of Australia With a population of over 340000 it is Australia's largest inland City. SBS TV, sometimes SBS, is a national public television channel in Australia. Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River.

South Park, SBS' most successful ever television series was first shown on the network in 1998. South Park is an animated American television comedy series created and written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for Comedy Central A time-delay system was installed for South Australia in May 1999, shortly before the establishment of the Transmission Services division (intended to manage transmission and self-help services). South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country May 1999 was a month with thirty-one days The following events also occurred during the month A New Media division, responsible for the SBS website, was established at the start of 2000, in time for the first webcast of the AFI Awards. A webcast is a media file distributed over the Internet using Streaming media technology Ratings continued to increase through 2000 to 2001 - increasing to an overall 5. 2% average weekly audience share[2].

Four languages were dropped, and four added, from SBS Radio in April, 2003, while hours for Cantonese, Mandarin and Arabic language broadcasts (amongst others) were increased. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language SBS broadcast the 2004 Athens Olympics in partnership with the Seven Network. The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was an International Multi-sport event which was celebrated The Seven Network is an Australian television network, owned by the Seven Media Group. SBS will broadcast the Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland . The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2008, was the 13th UEFA European Football Championship, a quadrennial football Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation

SBS Studio, Artarmon
SBS Studio, Artarmon

On 7 May 2008 SBS unveiled a new look logo, as well as a new slogan Six Billion Stories and counting. Artarmon is a Suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common [4]

Services

SBS Radio

Main article: SBS Radio

SBS Radio broadcasts in 68 languages in all Australian states, producing an estimated 13,500 hours of Australian programming for its two frequencies in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as its national network. SBS Radio is a service provided by the Special Broadcasting Service ' SBS Radio is a service provided by the Special Broadcasting Service ' Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 Much like SBS TV, SBS radio is funded by a mix of government grants, paid-for government information campaigns, and commercial advertising[5]. SBS TV, sometimes SBS, is a national public television channel in Australia. SBS Radio will broadcast the Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland . The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2008, was the 13th UEFA European Football Championship, a quadrennial football Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation

Following "extensive community consultation", in 2003 a range of new programs were introduced, including services in Malay, Somali and Amharic in addition to the expansion of many existing programs. The Malay language ( ISO 639-1 code MS is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people and people of other ethnic groups who reside in the Somali ( Af Soomaali, الصوماليه is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by ethnic Somalis Amharic (አማርኛ amarəñña) is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia by the Amhara. [5]

SBS Television

Main article: SBS Television
SBS building in Melbourne Federation Square
SBS building in Melbourne Federation Square

SBS TV is available nationally through a network of terrestrial transmitters in addition to the Optus Aurora satellite service. SBS Television is a service of the Australian Special Broadcasting Service, providing a nation-wide network of digital and analogue television services Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 Federation Square (also colloquially known as Fed Square) is a cultural precinct in the city of Melbourne, Australia. SBS TV, sometimes SBS, is a national public television channel in Australia. Optus Aurora is a free-to-view Satellite television platform in Australia, aimed at providing Television and Radio services to remote areas using SBS TV devotes a significant part of its morning television schedule to news bulletins in languages other than English[6], as well as showing many subtitled, foreign-language films. Its own news and current affairs aim to have a higher concentration on international affairs than the ABC or the commercial networks. It also shows many documentaries and current affairs programs, while its sports coverage has a strong focus on international sports, primarily football (soccer) and cycling (especially the Tour de France) - often leading the station to be lampooned as "Sex and Bloody Soccer" or "Sex Between Soccer". Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered History See also:CategoryTour de France by year The dominant sports newspaper in France

At the end of 2006, SBS began showing ad breaks during programs[7][8], a move which was intended to increased funding for the commission of multicultural drama and documentaries, and to support World News Australia's shift to a one-hour format, a change unpopular with many viewers[9]. World News Australia is the news service of the Special Broadcasting Service.

Callsign

Regardless of state or territory, SBS television services always use the callsign 'SBS'. In capital cities, SBS is broadcast on UHF channel 28, while regional and digital television is on a range of frequencies. Digital television (DTV is the sending and receiving of moving images and sound by discrete ( digital) signals in contrast to the analog signals used by

Digital Television

See also: SBS World News Channel, SBS Essential

Much like the ABC, SBS has been one of the most progressive networks with regard to digital broadcasting, primarily due to government restrictions on commercial multichanneling. The SBS World News Channel is an Australian television channel broadcast by SBS Television that launched on June 12, 2002. SBS Essential was a Special Broadcasting Service Television channel available to Digital television viewers in Australia. ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1956 Since 2001 SBS TV has been broadcast to the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra. SBS TV, sometimes SBS, is a national public television channel in Australia. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 Brisbane ( is the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. Canberra ( is the capital city of Australia With a population of over 340000 it is Australia's largest inland City. Since 2003 in Darwin.

SBS broadcasts a second digital channel, the SBS World News Channel - launched in 2002 - which broadcasts a mix of foreign-language news bulletins similar to SBS TV's morning WorldWatch timeslot. The SBS World News Channel is an Australian television channel broadcast by SBS Television that launched on June 12, 2002. SBS TV, sometimes SBS, is a national public television channel in Australia. Despite being available nationally through digital terrestrial television, the channel is unavailable on the Optus Aurora satellite platform. Digital Terrestrial Television ( DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and Optus Aurora is a free-to-view Satellite television platform in Australia, aimed at providing Television and Radio services to remote areas using

Language services

SBS is one of the world's largest subtitling organisations, producing subtitles not just for films to be shown on its own television channel, but also for foreign film and documentary producers around the world. Services include translation from English to other languages, and from foreign languages to other languages, as well as to English[10].

Through its Language Services unit, SBS also provides a range of translation, typesetting, and voiceover services. [11].

Other

The network provides a rehearsal venue for the SBS Radio and Television Youth Orchestra, an orchestra that records many broadcasts for the network and tours regularly overseas. The SBS Radio and Television Youth Orchestra (SBS Youth Orchestra is one of the premier youth orchestras of Sydney, Australia.

See also

References

  1. ^ SBS: Frequently Asked Questions SBS Corporation, accessed 26 May 2007
  2. ^ a b SBS: History SBS Corporation, accessed 26 May 2007
  3. ^ The History of Australian Television: SBS Television, accessed 22 May 2007
  4. ^ SBS: Six Billion Stories and counting SBS Corporation, accessed 8 May 2008
  5. ^ a b About SBS Radio
  6. ^ SBS - WorldWatch, accessed 20 May 2007
  7. ^ Commercials and Promotions FAQ
  8. ^ SBS to Bolster News and Current Affairs. Increase Australian Content SBS Corporation, June 2006
  9. ^ Daily Flute: SBS advertisements accessed 26 May
  10. ^ SBS Subtitling SBS Corporation, accessed 20 May
  11. ^ SBS Language Services SBS Corporation, accessed 26 May

External links

SBS Television is a service of the Australian Special Broadcasting Service, providing a nation-wide network of digital and analogue television services SBS TV, sometimes SBS, is a national public television channel in Australia. The SBS World News Channel is an Australian television channel broadcast by SBS Television that launched on June 12, 2002. SBS Essential was a Special Broadcasting Service Television channel available to Digital television viewers in Australia. SBS independent (SBSi is the primary production unit of SBS "home-baked" Primetime programming
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